Troy Ritter took the biggest battle to win the war for the Laguna Blanca boys tennis team on Thursday. Ritter's tiebreak-victory in the match's final set gave the Owls a 10-8 triumph over Villanova."It was definitely a pressure situation and he came through," said Owls head coach Trevor Thorpe.The doubles team of Benji and Peter Sorensen rallied from 5-1 down in their first set to win 7-5. From there, the duo coasted to a pair of 6-1 victories to sweep its three sets. Justin Shand and … [Read more...]

Petar Jivkov provided the heroics for the San Marcos boys tennis team on Wednesday, coming back from a 4-0 deficit in the final set of the day to defeat Arroyo Grande's Sean Hollister in a tiebreaker and lead the Royals to a 10-8 victory over the Eagles.“Petar showed amazing concentration and resolve when our team needed him the most," said coach Jarrod Bradley. "He’s shown that he’s capable of playing the big sets and is not afraid to hit his shots in the most pressure-packed … [Read more...]

Dos Pueblos boys tennis head coach Liz Frech shuffled the deck on Tuesday and out came aces. The Chargers moved some players around without the services of top singles player Sasha Gryaznov and  defeated visiting Righetti 14-4.Without Gryaznov anchoring the singles lineup, Sean Handley stepped in and swept three sets and Austin Cano claimed two more sets without a loss.Many of DP's doubles combinations were playing together for the first time, with Mitch Hanson and Malcolm Sutton … [Read more...]

Bishop Diego's boys tennis team came close to pulling out a season-opening victory on Tuesday, falling to Oak Park 10-8."It was a competive match for our first game of the year and it was a lot more competetive than it was last year," said Cardinals head coach Ray Vazquez, citing a 16-2 decision last season.Nick Machis Jr. and Matthew Grimes kept the Cardinals in the match this year, each sweeping three sets in singles.The Cardinals play Dos Pueblos' JV team on Friday in their next … [Read more...]

Two Royals doubles teams remained undefeated through three matches by winning three sets on Monday, leading the Royals to a 12-6 victory over San Luis Obispo.Nik Kilpelainen and Garrett Timmons won their first two sets 6-0, 6-0 before being stretched to a third-set tiebreaker. Jackson Foster and Parker Funk took their three sets 6-1, 6-4, 7-5. Jackson Mann and Scott Messier went 2-1 to give San Marcos eight of nine doubles sets.Petar Jivkov took two sets for San Marcos in singles, … [Read more...]

Thousand Oaks' solid singles side proved unbreakable for Dos Pueblos on Monday as the Chargers fell 11-7 to the Lancers in a non-league matchup.Sasha Gryaznov won two of three sets in singles but the rest of the Chargers were winless in six sets.The story was better for Dos Pueblos in doubles, where the teams of Malcolm Sutton/Christian Edstrom and Andy Silverstein/Robert Laskin both won two sets each.Marcos Giron went undefeated for Thousand Oaks in singles while its doubles team of … [Read more...]

Top singles player Max Hong went 3-0 but the Laguna Blanca boys tennis team lost its season-opener against visiting Nordhoff on Friday, 11-7."He played really well today and had an excellent match with their No. 1 player," said coach Trevor Thorpe. "We were strong in some of our singles matches struggled in doubles."After going 3-11 last year, Thorpe sees room for lots of improvement this season."I can already tell that there's a lot of potential to do better than last season. I … [Read more...]

It doesn't get any closer.Cate's boys tennis team remained winless after battling to a 9-9 tie in sets against Arroyo Grande on Friday, losing in games by a tally of 73-72."We had a number of chances to win this match and we came up short. The Arroyo Grande kids played well when the chips were down, and we didn't really have any gas left," said disappointed Rams coach Bob Bonning.Blake Mackall and Gregory Mak went 3-0 for the Rams (0-3) in doubles play and Cam Seo won both of his … [Read more...]

Dos Pueblos' Sasha Gryaznov remained undefeated on the season, sweeping his three sets on Friday without losing a game to lead the Chargers past San Luis Obispo 12-6.The doubles teams of Malcolm Sutton/Christian Edstrom and Robert Laskin/Sean Handley went 6-0 fo DP, while Peter Shao and Eric Zmolek brought the Chargers two more sets on the doubles side.Coco Angulo and James Campbell won two sets each in singles for the Tigers, but neither could touch Gryaznov.Dos Pueblos improves to … [Read more...]

San Marcos doubles teams were perfect on Thursday, making it two straight matches to start the season as the Royals conquered Lompoc 17-1.The Royals have a doubles record of 18-0 and have won 72 of 90 games in the process. Jackson Foster-Parker Funk and Jacob Coffey-Garrett Hazarian went the distance and swept their three sets.Garrett Timmons, normally a double player, swept three sets in singles. Travis Enholm and Nik Kilpelainen won two sets before giving way to reserves.  Evan … [Read more...]

Santa Barbara's boys tennis team pounced on Laguna Beach on Wednesday, tallying a 16-2 non-league victory against last year's CIF Division-IV finalists."We got them off the bus and just never got them a chance to get started," said Dons head coach Steve Geremia. "I was pleased because Santa Barbara High played good tennis and that's what we're looking at."Geremia enjoyed solid performances in singles for the second straight match from Nico Pollero and Graham Maasen, who won their four … [Read more...]

Dos Pueblos and Cate were interrupted by rain on Wednesday, but not in time to save the Rams from an abbreviated 10-2 non-league loss to the Chargers.Sasha Gryaznov and Austin Cano held up DP's singles side by sweeping two sets each as did the doubles team of Malcolm Sutton/Christian Edstrom.Rohit Goswamy took a set in singles for Cate, which has fallen to two Channel League schools in its first two matches. Gregory Mak and Austin Lokre paired in doubles to win the Rams' other … [Read more...]